Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last spring, after HUCTW won a support staff election by a narrow 44-vote margin, the University contested the vote, accusing the union of illegal electioneering and asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to overturn the results and hold a second referendum...
...state where four-fifths of the population favors capital punishment, the main charge against Bird is that during her nine-year tenure the court has reversed all but three of the 55 death-penalty sentences that have come before it. Bird voted to overturn all of them. "She has been twisting the law so that it more closely reflects her own political beliefs," says Kern County District Attorney Edward Jagels, who, like many prosecutors, is an active Bird critic. (Bird refuses to divulge her personal position on capital punishment.) The campaign against the chief is a major factor...
After 17 years of organizing, HUCTW last May narrowly won the right to represent the University's 3400 staff members. But Harvard challenged the validity of the election, charging the union with illegal electioneering, and asked the NLRB to overturn the vote and hold a second election...
...give birth to her first child in December. In any event, a return to the tumultuous party politics of her father's day is for the moment proscribed by Zia's ban on party endorsements for candidates. Bhutto's party is petitioning the Supreme Court to overturn the prohibition...
...against premarital sex and abortion. But they also found that some groups receiving the money had violated the separation of church and state by mixing religious doctrine into their counseling. Writing for a 5-to-4 majority, Rehnquist ruled that in such instances the solution would not be to overturn the law but to disqualify the particular groups...